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, H. D WILSON. Combined Stay and Shoulder Brace.

. Patented Sept. I4, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HATTIE D. WVILSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED STAY AND SHOULDER-BRACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 232,162, dated September 14, 1880.

Application filed June 22, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HATTIE D. WILSON, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Elastic Stays and ShouldcrBraces, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a combined stay and shoulder-brace in a jacket-like form, having whalebone or other suitable elastic stays in the back, with shoulder-straps forming armholcs, and straps attached to lacing-cords to buckle in front.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 represents a back View of my device, and Fig. 2 a front View of the same.

'A and A are two parts of the body, united by lacing-cords c c c c. B B are the shoulderstraps, passing over the shoulders, around and under the arms, forming arm-holes; and a a a a are the whalebones, inclosed in the fabric in the usual way.

D D are straps, to which the lacing-cords are attached, and which are brought around the waist and buckled in front.

Each pair of eyelet-holes c c has a separate lacing-cord, the ends of which are secured to the straps U and C, so that by drawing upon,

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said straps all the lacing-cords are tightened equally and simultaneously, though all are independent of each other.

This device is adapted to male or female Wear, and is especially useful for growing children and youths, ten ding to prevent them from l becoming stoop-shouldered and to promote a proper development of the chest.

1 am aware of the patent of S. F. Morse, No. 151,902, dated June 9, 1874, which shows aseries of cords extending from each side of the back of the corset to one part of a waistband strap, but not connecting said sides or the two parts of the waistband-strap together, and I do not claim such construction; but

What I do claim is The body A A", in two parts, connected together by separate lacing cords, each cord passing through one pair only of eyelet-holes, 0 c, in the parts A and A, and connected with the buckling-straps D and D, and the shoulder-straps B B, all constructed and combined substantially as described.

HATTIE D. VILSON.

Witnesses:

WM. H. HART, A. P. SMITH. 

